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A Hard Place - PodcastInformation, disinformation, shenanigans and the role of defence in our lives today* The accompanying transcript is AI generated This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2026-02-1629 min
A Hard Place - PodcastSticking it out...politicians in Westminster and Gibraltar wait for the rain to stop This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2026-02-0928 min
A Hard Place - PodcastTrump a relativist? Starmer blocks Burnham. Gibraltar sets April 10 target for removing Europe's last borderAndrew Mackinlay joins me to discuss the news of the past few days. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2026-02-0126 min
A Hard Place - PodcastAfter Davos, the rethinkAndrew Mackinlay joins me for our 10th edition of A Hard Place to look at where volatile politics, globally and at home is leading us. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2026-01-2534 min
A Hard Place - PodcastICE, REFORM AND THE ELECTORATEAndrew Mackinlay joins me to talk about the shock impact of the Minnesota ICE incident, the Tory haemorrhage to Reform and where Gibraltar sits in all this with its own political landscape.*Transcript is computer generated This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2026-01-1639 min
A Hard Place - Podcast2026 Rabbits out of the hat or canardsAndrew Mackinlay joins me for the first Hard place podcast for 2026 discussing global and local issues.* more info Kennedy Center reference to https://www.thecookersmusic.com/**ref to The Skibbereen Eagle - one story that explains this https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/28/local-newspaper-tsar-of-russia-19th-centuryhttps://fotbot.org… This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2026-01-0843 min
A Hard Place - PodcastHolding Together?After skipping the last General Election when their then leader Marlene Hassan stood down, socialist Nick Calamaro and the party’s leader tells Dominique Searle this is more than a pressure group and he will lead the party into the next General Election. What if he wins enough seats to make a difference?Thanks for reading A Hard Place! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Thanks for reading A Hard Place! This post is public so feel free to share it....
2025-12-2021 min
A Hard Place - PodcastEurope, erasure and the rest of us....Dominique is joined by Andrew Mackinlay as we discuss the challenges Europe faces as Trump sets the agenda and UK’s Labour falling into the leadership challenge trap. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2025-12-1429 min
A Hard Place - PodcastWhat is the real Spain that Gibraltar is now engaging with?I speak with William Chislett Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute. William covered Spain’s transition to democracy for The Times of London between 1975 and 1978. He was then based in Mexico City for the Financial Times between 1978 and 1984. He returned to Madrid on a permanent basis in 1986 and since then, among other things, has written more than 20 books on various countries.The Elcano Royal Institute published between 2002 and 2016 four books of his on Spain. He wrote a monthly review of Spain (Inside Spain) for the Institute between April 2004 and September 2021, and since November 2021 writes a mo...
2025-12-0429 min
A Hard Place - PodcastGambling on the Budget, Wilson and a few loose nuts....I am joined by Andrew Mackinlay who gives us an insight into just how far Harold Wilson feared the UK security services were after him, Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s premier welcomes Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s GSLP socialists into Socialist International.. and the gaming industry hit by a cash hungry Chancellor. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2025-12-0128 min
A Hard Place - PodcastBudget week watershed: where next for British politics...Andrew Mackinlay joins me to discuss politics in the UK, this week’s Joint Ministerial Council of the British Overseas Territories and whether we need Governors in these territories. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2025-11-2332 min
A Hard Place - PodcastFranco: Dead, or Alive?I have known Giles Tremlett from my years as a journalist as far back as the 1990s when I was Editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle and stinger for The Times and Reuters. Always a highly regarded Madrid correspondent, his books are both informative and a very good read. Giles is a British historian, author, and journalist born in 1962 in Plymouth, England. He is based in Madrid, Spain, and has lived there almost continuously since the mid-1990s. He graduated in Human Sciences from the University of Oxford in 1984 and also studied at the universities of Barcelona and...
2025-11-1925 min
A Hard Place - PodcastWhy podcast, how media, inquiries and reading... This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit searledom.substack.com
2025-11-1228 min
Gibraltar TodayMidterm Poll, Scott leaves GBC, University Lecture, Sports, Nautilus Project PodcastA midterm poll, conducted by GBC with Mediatel, suggests a significant swing - in voting intentions - to the GSD, but it’s still all to play for ahead of the next election due to the many who don’t know how they’d vote. At the midway point in the electoral cycle, we asked over 1,000 respondents about their voting intentions in face-to-face interviews over nine days earlier this month. News editor Christine Vasquez went over the findings. Kelly-Anne Borge is hosting today’s episode because the Gibraltar Today presenter and Senior Broadcast journalist Jonathan Scott is leavin...
2025-10-1337 minGibraltar TodayPower Outage, Director of Gibraltar HouseWe begin with a discussion of yesterday’s seven-hour blackout with our reporters Ros Astengo and Jonathan Sacramento. Topics covered include the cause of the outage, its impact on local and business owners, and how the Government is considering legal action and new laws to hold contractors accountable.But the majority of today’s episode features a catch up with Dominique Searle, the former Director of Gibraltar House in London, who retired a few weeks ago. He led Gibraltar’s UK office for almost a decade and was previously the Editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle newspaper. ...
2025-09-1736 min
The Daily THow Gisèle Pelicot changed France foreverGisèle Pelicot’s courage, resilience and fortitude in publically proving a decade of rape and sexual abuse at the hands of her husband and fifty other men has transformed her from septuagenarian grandmother to French national hero.Dominique Pelicot will go down as one of the worst sex offenders in modern French history, having been sentenced to 20 years in prison for drugging Gisèle and inviting dozens of men to rape her in her home in the south of France.Kamal and Camilla speak to The Telegraph's Paris correspondent Henry Samuel from the...
2024-12-1941 minGibraltar TodayUK Elections, BCA, Poetry Book, DanzaWhat is the ambiente like in London, with the UK election having been called? We spoke to Gibraltar’s Representative to the UK Dominique Searle about this. He was in the UK parliament earlier this week, sat behind the Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron, so we were keen to hear about his experience and to learn more about his role. Despite concerns, there were no queues at the frontier this morning. The Borders and Coastguard Agency did not go ahead with planned industrial action. It follows last minute discussions between BCA shop stewards and Unite the Uni...
2024-05-2431 min
Gibraltar Business PodcastS6. E7. Dominique Searle, Gibraltar's Representative to the UKDavid Revagliatte meets Dominique Searle, former UK Editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle and Gibraltar's Representative to the UK. In this episode, we discuss his personal stories, political developments, and the history of Gibraltar's press. We'll explore Dominique's background in a family of journalists and his experiences during significant events like the Brussels process and the reopening of the Gibraltar border, giving you an insight into the foundations of Gibraltar's media scene. We'll a...
2024-04-2035 min
Diálogos en SaludEpisodio Especial | Día del Nutriólogo 2022 | Mesa Panel: Nutriólogas UADY ejerciendo por el mundoEvento realizado el día 28 de enero de 2022 en la Ciudad de Mérida Yucatán México.
El Día del Nutriólogo en nuestro país se celebra desde 1975, cada 27 de enero. Esta fecha fue promovida por la Asociación Mexicana de Nutriología, ya que ese día fue el que la asociación se registró ante la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México por la Dra. Sara Elena Pérez Gil, junto con profesionales de la nutrición del Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INNSZ).
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